The Well-meaning Mayor

"The Well-meaning Mayor" is one of nine short stories written by Leslie Charteris and included in the twenty-first Saint book The Happy Highwayman published in 1939.

Plot
During a visit to the seaside town of Elmford, Simon Templar avenges the suicide of a police commissioner by going after the corrupt civic leader responsible.

Television adaptation
"The Well Meaning Mayor" (note the missing hyphen) was adapted as an episode of The Saint TV series starring Roger Moore and was first broadcast during the show's second season on 5 December 1963.